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Dozens even go out to another level of base 12, now that I think about it. A gross (144) is twelve dozen, so you could have something like 6 gross, 5 dozen, and
by Turing_Machine 4y ago
Dozens even go out to another level of base 12, now that I think about it. A gross (144) is twelve dozen, so you could have something like 6 gross, 5 dozen, and 3.
- dragonwriter 4y agoThere is at least one more level, “great gross” is 12³, 1728. There is also, per Wikipedia, apparently the mixed-base “small gross” / “great hundred” = 120, which I have never encountered in the wild.
- johntb86 4y agoThe long (=great) hundred is 120, while the long thousand is 1200. It seems pretty understanding, so I wonder if anyone ever needed to use a long hundred thousand and worked out what that was supposed to be.